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TOP LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON Virtualization News Desk NetEffect Goes to Intel
Intel’s current portfolio of 10GbE server adapters is designed for multi-core-based servers and optimized for virtualization
By: Maureen O'Gara
Oct. 18, 2008 11:00 AM
Tom Swinford, the general manager of Intel’s LAN Access Division, said, “The combination of Intel and NetEffect technology will allow Intel to address our customers’ most important 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs, including server virtualization, convergence of network and storage traffic, and server compute clusters.” The purchase included NetEffect’s Ethernet product portfolio, IP and technology. NetEffect provided solutions incorporating iWARP, an Ethernet alternative to InfiniBand. Its products included 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) adapters for servers and blade configurations as well as 10 GbE ASICs. Intel’s current portfolio of 10GbE server adapters, designed for multi-core-based servers and optimized for virtualization, includes single- and dual-port versions for both copper and fiber implementations. The NetEffect acquisition provides complementary high-performance NICs to Intel’s Ethernet portfolio. Started in 1998, Banderacom was originally focused on InfiniBand adapters and 16-port IB switches. It was recapitalized in 2004 as NetEffect after InfiniBand failed to go mainstream. Intel says its 30 employees, primarily engineers, have joined Intel and will continue to be based in
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Intel has bought the assets – the assets, mind you – of NetEffect Inc, née Banderacom, the network connectivity solutions company that specialized in Ethernet products and technologies for server compute clusters. The assets went for $8 million. 
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